The President And The Fashion Police

Obama wore a tan suit to a big press conference. Was it a fashion don’t or the height of chic? Danielle Kurtzleben rounds up a bunch of tweets fashion-shaming the President, under a headline deeming the controversy “a promising sign of gender equality.” An example Kurtzleben cites:

If Republicans claim Obama's suit is unconstitutional, nobody will be able to argue with them.

But the President did not wear any of those things. Nor did he wear a three-piece suit, a seersucker suit or a white suit. Hell, he didn’t even opt for the Reagan mullet suit (business on the top, lounging on the bottom).

But this suit was TAN. So, what message is he trying to send exactly? We consulted our in-house fashion expert – Pulitzer prize winner Robin Givhan – to answer just that question. “There is nothing wrong with that suit – well, except it’s a little big,” Givhan said. “As they always are.” She added:

It says more about official, federal, political Washington that anything other than a dark suit with a white shirt and red tie counts as some sort of aesthetic heresy. That is a conservative two-button suit in a color that is perfectly appropriate for the time of year and the occasion. This was not a ‘formal’ news conference. Honestly, people are responding like he showed up in Pharrell Williams’ short suit. I’m appalled by the Twitter feeds.